Graniteville, Staten Island

Graniteville is a neighborhood of Staten Island, New York. The area was known as Bennett's Corners and Fayetteville before being renamed "Graniteville" due to the operation of trap rock quarries from 1841 to 1896. Graniteville was largely rural well into the 20th century, and it is bisected from east to west by Interstate 278, and with New York State Route 440 forming its eastern boundary. Residential development in the area burgeoned after the opening of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in November 1964, and it now stands at the north end of a busy commercial strip along Richmond Avenue. In 2010, Graniteville's population was 37.4% white, 29.9% Hispanic, 16.6% black, 13.1% Asian, and 3% others.